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100 Ans D'Affiche de la MAGIE
New York: Darien House, 1976. French language edition. A bound collection of posters connected with Magic (Of the Houdini variety rather than witchcraft). Verso text about many posters. Clean and tidy softback. Several of the posters are folding plates. Introductory text in French to the front. 410 by 280mm (16¼ by 11 inches). 112 pages.
Book ID: 2439More details Price: £25.00 -
100 Ans D'Affiches du Cirque
New York: Darien House, 1974. French language edition. A bound collection of posters connected with Magic (Of the Houdini variety rather than witchcraft). Verso text about many posters. Clean and tidy softback. Several of the posters are folding plates. Introductory text in French to the front. 410 by 280mm (16¼ by 11 inches). 112 pages.
Condition: A touch of bumping and browning to the edge of the covers. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Book ID: 2440More details Price: £30.00 -
12 Books That Changed The World
Condition: Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket.
Book ID: 2073More details Price: £10.00 -
1916 - Portraits and Lives
Condition: Both book and wrapper are in immaculate copy. A lovely example
Book ID: 1844More details Price: £35.00 -
1920's Gazelle Rijwielfabriek Advertising
Dieren: Gazelle Rijwielfabriek, 1920s. From 1899 to 1905, Vlaanderen worked on the Ed Cuypers architectural firm. He set up on his own and worked on many advertising assignments for various companies. For several decades, André Vlaanderen was the graphic designer for the Gazelle bicycle factory. In 1925, he developed the Gazelle logo, which the company still uses today. During the 1920s and 1930s, he was also the author of several small advertising comic books for Gazelle.
Book ID: 2124More details Price: £75.00 -
21 USA - The Gift of Life
Part of Operation Magic Kingdom.
Totnes: James Cauty: 2007. Limited Edition Print onto 315 gsm archival paper - Edition of 21 stamped and with the initials AP (which probably stand for Artist's Proof). The Gift of Life, OMK Page Edition. Operation Magic Kingdom was a billboard and street poster campaign London 2007 against Iraq war also released as stamps and prints. print onto 315 gsm archival stock paper. OMK Blind stamped and hand numbered in pencil on front. Also official CNPD red stamp on back. Dimensions: 35,8 cm x 30.5cm with 4 binding holes in the left hand margin (last time this appeared at auction it reached £470)
Condition: Excellent condition. Currently protected in archival film.
Book ID: 1818More details Price: £275.00 -
3rd - Occupation Day 2006
A limited edition print for Occupation Day
Totnes: James Cauty: 2006. Limited Edition Print onto 315 gsm archival paper - This is one of James Cauty's famous anti-occupation of Iraq protest prints. These stamps were the subject of a legal action in 2003 by Royal Mail alledging copyright infringement
Condition: Excellent condition. Currently protected in archival film.
Book ID: 1821More details Price: £225.00 -
8 Minutes. HIRST & BAILEY
Gottinchen: Steidl, 2009. 130 photographs of British bad boy artist Damien Hirst by the great British fashion photographer David Bailey, taken during a single shoot lasting eight minutes.
Condition: As new, still in the original shrink wrap
Book ID: 2179More details Price: £30.00 -
81 USA - War Can Be Fun
Part of Operation Magic Kingdom.
Totnes: James Cauty: 2007. Limited Edition Print onto 315 gsm archival paper - Edition of 81 numbered and stamped (this is 48/81) War Can Be Fun, OMK Page Edition. Operation Magic Kingdom was a billboard and street poster campaign London 2007 against Iraq war also released as stamps and prints. print onto 315 gsm archival stock paper. OMK Blind stamped and hand numbered in pencil on front. Also official CNPD red stamp on back. Dimensions: 35,8 cm x 30.5cm with 4 binding holes in the left hand margin
Condition: Excellent condition. Currently protected in archival film.
Book ID: 1817More details Price: £150.00 -
99 USA - Believe the Magic
Part of Operation Magic Kingdom.
Totnes: James Cauty: 2007. Limited Edition Print onto 315 gsm archival paper - Edition of 99 - numbered and stamped (this is 35/99) Believe the Magic, OMK Page Edition. Operation Magic Kingdom was a billboard and street poster campaign London 2007 against Iraq war also released as stamps and prints. print onto 315 gsm archival stock paper. OMK Blind stamped and hand numbered in pencil on front. Also official CNPD red stamp on back. Dimensions: 35,8 cm x 30.5cm with 4 binding holes in the left hand margin
Condition: Excellent condition. Currently protected in archival film.
Book ID: 1816More details Price: £180.00 -
A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Jonathan Swift, D.D.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: There is a little rubbing to the edges of the boards, but mainly in good sound condition. Darkening to the rear cover from smoke damage. A little smoke damage to the end papers also. Overall a good clean copy.
Book ID: 1877More details Price: £70.00 -
A Book of Modern Ballads
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1892. Brown cloth binding with gold and silver blocked design and titles to front. Fully illustrated with charming chromolithographs, some full-page. All edges gilt. 40 pp. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches). Features poems by (among others) Rossetti, Swinburne, Browning, Shelley, Weatherly, and Gilbert.
Condition: Boards a little bumped and scuffed, pages age toned and with some foxing, but overall in good shape.
Book ID: 2497More details Price: £20.00 -
A Brief Outline of the History of Old Hall.
A Paper Written on the Occasion of the Centenary Celebration at St. Edmund's College, in 1869
Edition: First Edition
Standon: Edmundian Association: 1891. Original cloth gilt now a bit dulled, all edges gilt, some foxing at the front, else a very good copy. Owner's name to the ffep (Syon Abbey, South Brent). St Edmund's Hall was established in 1795 for the education of the children of Roman Catholic nobility. pp. vi, 80, Frontispiece and 7 Illustrations
Book ID: 1077More details Price: £30.00 -
A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State in Mr. Hobbes's Book, entitles LEVIATHAN
The second impresson
Edition: Reprint
Condition: The spine is new and immaculate - the boards are firm and in good condition, with just a little rubbing to the edges. To the inside board, and early bookplate has been obliterated - presumably by a later owner. Signature of Baron Pretyman to the title page - further signature to the rear end paper. There are a number of notes to the inside board, which have been comprehensively eradicated to as to be impossible to read. Otherwise, the book is in very nice, clean condition, with just a touch of foxing to some pages.
Book ID: 1640More details Price: £675.00 -
A Century of American Sculpture
Treasures from Brookgreen Gardens
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind stamped figure on upper board. Beautiful full colour photos of garden sculptures from the late 19th and 20th centuries. 127 pp.
340 x 290mm (13½ x 11½ inches). Brookgreen Gardens is in South Carolina, on the site of an old rice plantation.Condition: Boards has some sun fading, but the photographic dust jacket is in a very good condition. Neat gift inscription to the inside front.
Book ID: 2189More details Price: £35.00 -
A Collection of Amusing Rounds and Catches, for the Use of Schools, Families and Choral Societies
Selected from the Original Sources by the Editor of "The Young Singer's Book of Songs"
Edition: Reprint
London: Longman and Co: 1870. Blue paper covers. Decorative border and titles in black. Adverts to rear cover. 45 songs, with the music and words. Oblong 8vo. This is the stated Fourth Edition of this work. 24 pp,
Condition: The pale blue covers are sound but have some foxing spots to them. The front and rear cover have become detached at some point, and are held on to each other with tape (non-archival). Inside, there is some foxing to the inside covers. Otherwise clean if slightly darkened to the edges. The music and songs are all in good condition and fully legible.
Book ID: 1338More details Price: £10.00 -
A Collection of Amusing Rounds and Catches, for the Use of Schools, Families and Choral Societies
Selected from the Original Sources by the Editor of "The Young Singer's Book of Songs"
London: Longman and Co: 1869. Disbound. (Originally Blue paper covers - the front cover has now gone). Adverts to the rear blue cover 45 songs, with the music and words. Oblong 8vo. This is the stated Fourth Edition of this work. 24 pp,
Condition: The rear pale blue cover has some foxing spots to it. The front and rear cover have become detached at some point, and only the rear has survived. Otherwise clean if slightly darkened to the edges. The music and songs are all in good condition and fully legible.
Book ID: 1339More details Price: £5.00 -
A Compendium of the East Being an Account of Voyages to the Grand Indies Made By the Sieur Jean De Lacombe, of Quercy, Formerly Captain at Arms in the Service of the Company of the Indies of Holland.
Now Published for the First Time [from the Bordeaux Manuscript of 1681] in an English translation by Stepanie & Denis Clark. Edited, with an Introduction by Ashley Gibson
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. First / Limited edition; Number 86 of 300 copies. Black cloth spine, batik covered boards. Printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's hand-made paper. Contemporary Engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische Reyse [Amsterdam, 1676]. Maps used as end papers are from a contemporary Mercator Atlas. Double page plates, double page facsimile from original manuscript. 209, [1] pp. Bookplate of Herbert Eberhard Hering, a noted German-Brazilian bibliophile and book collector, appears on the inside front paste down. 320 by 200mm (12½ by 7¾ inches).
Condition: The black spine has a little nicking to the top and tail of the spine. Overall in good, clean condition though. Internally clean with a few foxing spots only.
Book ID: 2244More details Price: £225.00 -
A Confutation of Quakerism;
Or a Plain Proof of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker Writers (especially Mr. R. Barclay in his Apology and Other Works) do Teach. concerning the necessity of immediate revelation in order to a saving Christian faith; the Being, Nature and Operation of the Pretended Universal Light within; its Striving with Men, moving them to Prayer, and calling them to the Ministry; Regeneration, Sanctification, Justification, Salvation and Union with God; the Nature of a Church; the Rule of Faith; Water-Baptism; and the Lord's-Supper. Diverse Questions also concerning Perfection, Christ's Satisfaction, the Judge of Controversies, &c. are briefly stated and resolved.
Edition: Reprint
Cambridge: Printed at the University Press for Edmund Jeffery: 1709. Bound in a period full panelled calf, five raised bands to spine. Complete. Bennet, Thomas (1673–1728), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist. He had prominent Whig principles, and these led to his early preferment under George. He wrote confutations, attacking Popery as well as Quakerism, and other dissenting groups. He also wrote attacking Non-Jurors. His later work and particularly his "Hebrew Grammar" did much to enhance his reputation. (See ODNB). collation: [viii +] 318 [+ 4+ 3] pp. ; page 127 is misnumbered as 129; final three pages are a catalogue of books printed for Edmund Jeffrey.
Condition: The binding is holding firmly and is in good condition, with just some light wear to surface / extremities from handling, upper hinge cracked, corners bumped and worn. The leather work has polished up nicely though. The contents are holding firmly and are generally in good condition though toned, with some light scattered foxing, creasing or dust marking. Modern bookplate. Period plain end papers, browned. Armorial bookplate of W. Wynne
Book ID: 1181More details Price: £80.00 -
A Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job.
Together with : The Preface to a Critical Dissertation on the Book of Job.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: The binding is somewhat rubbed, but holding together well. A little bumping to the corners of the boards. Slight scuffing to the boards. The gilt to the spine is somewhat rubbed but still attractive. There is a little nicking to the head and tail of the spine.
Book ID: 1750More details Price: £350.00
